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the subject of experiments to improve their suitability as an alternative crop for producing hypoallergenic rubber. For farmers not intending to grow it...

story of food, Harvard University Press, Harvard Mass. 1990 Harlan Jack R., Crops and man, American Society of Agronomy, Madison 1975 Saltini Antonio, I semi...

globally important food crops: Tomato, S. lycopersicum Potato, S. tuberosum Eggplant, S. melongena Other species are significant food crops regionally, such as...

[proteins which bind specific sugars]. Vicia ervilia is one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. Certain species of vetch are suitable for...

starchy tubers are edible cooked or raw. Although palatable and nutritious, the crop is hampered by low productivity. The plant is attractive and susceptible...

high levels of isothiocyanates. In Colombia, it is planted as a companion crop to repel pests in potato fields. Mashua has also been used to treat nephropathy...

susceptibility of maize to the European corn borer, and the resulting large crop losses, led to the development of transgenic expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis...

of the soil and the moisture available. Cover-crops. The plants commonly used in Florida for cover-crops are beggarweed, cowpeas, velvet bean and its relatives...

also used on bread and then eaten in Sicily. About one-third of the sesame crop imported by the United States from Mexico is purchased by McDonald's for...

(Agrius cingulata) -, or even hummingbirds. Second, the genus includes food crops; the tubers of Sweet Potato (I. batatas) and the leaves of Water Spinach...

starchy root vegetable that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in North America and East Asia. Stock often stoloniferous and tuberiferous...

The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic...

will produce good crops of corn, but its cultivation is most profitable on muck soils of reclaimed swamps. It is an exhaustive crop, and on uplands is...

quite sweet to rather tart. Strawberries are an important commercial fruit crop, widely grown in all temperate regions of the world. Much smaller and more...

cereals, for pasture, and for lawns. They include some more specialised crops such as lemongrass, as well as many ornamental plants, and some weeds. They...

conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 8. Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben/International Plant Genetic...

less than a quarter of a mile to fly, while more distant orchards bore no crops. Thus the apiary in or adjacent to an orchard will safeguard failure. A specific...

cm a year, and rooting at the nodes . White clover grows among turfgrass, crops, and in a large number of other landscapes. It is also found in a limited...

species in the cypress family, and are produced every year but with heavy crops every three to five years. The seedlings have 3–9 (most often 6) cotyledons...

important crop in areas that are prone to drought and famine, and is thought of as an 'insurance crop' as it produces reliable yields when all other crops fail...